A new record has been set for the world's largest snake! Read here to learn about the reticulated python "The Baroness." ...

A Romanian explorer and photographer, Radu Frențiu, found the longest wild snake in the world on an island in the Indonesian archipelago. The female python, measuring 7.22 meters, was registered in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Modern anacondas and pythons are massive, but fossil evidence shows they are not even close to the largest snakes to ever exist.

A newly described fossil snake from India is forcing scientists to redraw the record books on reptile gigantism, with some estimates suggesting it stretched longer than a modern city bus and ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A lone vertebra dug from Tainan’s coastal mudflats has unveiled giant pythons that once slithered through the nation’s prehistoric wetlands, reaching nearly 4 meters long before ...

Pythons are a common sight across much of Asia, especially in the tropical jungles and wetlands of countries like Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. But one curious exception has been the main island of ...